A new post office serving east Slidell will open by the end of May, four months after Hancock Bank decided not to renew the contract to run the station out of one of its Whitney Bank branches.

The Times-Picayune reported that the new contract postal unit will be inside a business in the Slidell Square shopping center.

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The postal office inside the Whitney Bank closed in January after the bank's new owner, Hancock Bank, declined to retain thee postal station as part of the bank's operation. The bank building had housed a post office since 2001.